Re: SBS 2003 Misconfigured?

Lanwench brings up good points, but I'm going to go a step further and say I'm concerned about your current device configuration.

If I read this properly, you have the WAN port of your netgear device plugged into one of the LAN ports of your netopia. The netopia 3300 series (I'm guessing the model based on the specs given) default to a NAT routing configuration, so essentially you've segmented your network if you have equipment plugged into both devices. This could cause all sorts of problems if you haven't carefully configured the equipment. I'd personally pull the netgear out of the equation. No need for two peices of equipment that do the same job.

I would instead pick up a switch (not a router), such as a 3com OfficeConnect (they come in managed and unmanaged varieties) or a Linksys and plug it into the netopia. No worrying about WAN ports, no configuration, just plug and play. I think you'll find administration and troubleshooting much easier if you don't have to worry about network communications traversing multiple routable devices.

-Cliff

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Mark Grantom <mgrantom@xxxxxxxxxx[no spam]> wrote:
I apologize in advance for the length of this post, however I wanted
to furnish as much information as possible to help me solve this
problem. I have spent a great deal of time trying to solve this
myself but I am at a complete roadblock at this point. I really need
to get my system up and functional again. My SBS 2003 is setup with
1 NIC & 3 Win XP workstations. I am using a Netopia ADSL2/2+ 4pt
Managed Switch that is connected to a netgear router. I needed the
Netgear router because it has 8 ports and I have several printers
besides my 3 workstations and server that I wanted to connect to it.
My SBS 2003 Server and 3 workstations are all connected to the
router. I am having trouble not being able to print from the server
to a printer connected on one of the workstations. I get an "access
denied, unable to connect" type message. I also lose connectivity
between the WS and the server from time to time. I believe I have
something misconfigured but I cannot figure it out. Any help in
getting this resolved would be much appreciated.
The configuration of the devices is as follows:
Netopia router

(this is really a modem)

DHCP "OFF"
Manually configured static IP from ISP
DNS set to ISP DNS-1 & DNS-2

Netgear FVG318 router
WAN IP set to one of the static IP's assigned by ISP
LAN IP of router manually set to 192.168.5.2
DHCP turned off
Primary and Secondary DNS setup to my ISP's DNS


SBS 2003 Server
Computer name is MSGSRV
IP of server is 192.168.5.109

That's fine, but for reasons of tidiness & organization it's usually best to assign your static IP addresses from the lowest or highest range of your IP subnet. I set exclusions - such as, from .1 to .50 and from 200 - .250. I set the gateway/router appliance to .1, and set my servers to use between .10 and .20, etc. You don't have to do this, but I find it tidier.

TCP/IP is configured so that DNS point to itself

Good

The alternate DNS is blank, should I set it to the ISP DNS-1?

Nope.

Default gateway is set to router 192.168.5.2

DHCP is configured, but I manually configured all IP's on all
computers after I started having problems.

OK - you shouldn't need that, but see below.

DHCP scope 192.168.5.100 to 192.168.5.150

OK.

IP's on Workstations was Manually configured as 192.168.5.101,
192.168.5.110, and 192.168.5.108 because DHCP will not work. Each WS
has its DNS pointed to the server local ip.

What about the DNS suffix & WINS?

Are there a set of diagnostics I can run that will help me pinpoint my
issue? Thanks in advance.

This is a lovely and informative level of detail, but you haven't told us the exact symptoms of the problem is yet. What precisely happens when you try to use DHCP & get a lease on a workstation?

When you set up the server, did you install & configure DHCP right off the bat, or did you have another device on the LAN with an active DHCP server (and hence SBS would skip DHCP setup)?




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